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Subject: Weapon category missing? What about a Heavy Machine Gun?
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Posted by: naxx
setting up a gun in halo 2 to use it would be stupid,anyhow,im sure i heard something about a minigun being used in one of the weekly updates,i might be wrong because i havent rechecked,but it comes to memory anyway

im more annoyed there are no pelicans to fly in sp or mp,why oh why bungie.


Everyone has to knock it off with this mini gun/vulcan BS. Any gun that is designed and put into Halo 2 is designed to be used by every character in the game, except for the Hunters and there canons. In the end, for any other character besieds MC to use a mini gun would be impossilbe without mounting on something for stability. If they were going to introduce a machine gun into the game, then it would be a small-medium caliber machine gun similar to the M60 or 249.

Below I have a link for the Fabrique Nationale 249, which used to be called the Minimi. In the game it would use a round similar to the one in the old AR. It wouls have a capacity of 100 rounds per belt, but once the belt has been used up the reload time would be longer than that of the rocket launcher. This gun would be practicle for battle field duty, of corse there would be mods put in to make it balance with the other guns. When holding the firearm or having it in your inventory you could not break into full sprints that you can with other weapons. You couldnt have another primary weapon(BR, RL, Covie Carbine etc.) in your inventory while using the machine gun.

http://www.fnhusa.com/contents/mg_m249saw.htm

  • 06.24.2004 9:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Fatalsnipe9
P.S. My favorite weapon is the M4 RIS Carbine (probably why imn obsessed with the Battle Rifle so much)


if this is true, you would think that you would like the famas instead of the m4 so much if youre obsessed with the Battle rifle, the Famas and battle rifle are very very similar.

  • 06.24.2004 10:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nedus
why dont you just rip the LAAG off a wrecked Warthog??

If LAAG stands for light anti aircraft gun, i was wondering what a HAAG would look like.

  • 06.24.2004 10:28 PM PDT

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Old GTs; RebelRobot, Flamedude

there used to be a mini-gun in the pre-xbox halo builds. perhaps it will be brought back to life.

  • 06.25.2004 5:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: MoNucka
more accurate at range, more powerful rounds. A belt fed weapon with 100 rnds. per belt, a long reload time and a speed\movement penalty, also you couldnt carry any other weapons mabey. When you crouch, you could deploy a bipod slung under the barrel, giving you more accuracy and contoll.
It would be great for getting a vantage on a base or group of enimies and suppressing them


Have you been playing BF: Vietnam? :P

Although when i started playing halo i liked the idea of bungie including a heavy machine gun of some sort, its not really in character with the Master Chief
The SPARTANs are special forces troops and although trained in using many weapons, would tend to stick to lighter weapons (SMG or battle rifle) for mobility and quick use

  • 06.25.2004 5:22 AM PDT
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That might be pretty cool... but i would want it to be a covenant weapon that shoots plasma and overheats very quickly

  • 06.25.2004 5:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: WarCobraGoW
That would kind of throw the balance of the game off, walking around with a huge death cannon like that.


i agree

  • 06.25.2004 5:26 AM PDT
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maybe, since its the future, they can make a gun with differnt firing types?(not modes) like the br shoots, zoomed single shots, unzoomed 3 round bursts, maybe they can create a weapon that fires like a rifle or a machine gun at once, like in the rifle mode it fires more acurately, fires a max of 5-7 bullets at once and cant go full auto unless you switch to machine gun mode where its full auto less acuracy and everything, but the common simmilarity is that they have around 100 bullets per belt, belt fed, and has a shape of a rifle but slightly bigger? ideas?

  • 06.25.2004 5:33 AM PDT
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Quote: Have you been playing BF: Vietnam? :P

Although when i started playing halo i liked the idea of bungie including a heavy machine gun of some sort, its not really in character with the Master Chief
The SPARTANs are special forces troops and although trained in using many weapons, would tend to stick to lighter weapons (SMG or battle rifle) for mobility and quick use



Yeah, Ihave been playing BF Vietnam. ; }


I think your right about the SPARTANS being mostly a light mobile force, and I can see why they didnt include a HMG. But sometimes, weather I'm cappin' grunts, or rushing elites with an AR, I just want a big, bad MG to Rock n Roll and blast the living -blam!- out of a room.

Although some of the most satisfying moments in halo are the powerfull headshots with the good ol' pistola, moving with cold murdrerous precision around a surprised group of covies, popping the elites first, then alternating target priorities between jackals and scurrying grunts. Then there are the times you wanna lay down the hurt like a mad, bad mamma-jamma, thats when I want something with way more balls and visceral satisfaction than the AR.

God Bless Halo.

  • 06.25.2004 7:41 AM PDT
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If you want surpressing fire on a base, go and get the warthog, it had the LAAG on the back and the warthog supports it, problem solved, it is as mobile as a gun you guys are talking about is gonna get...

  • 06.25.2004 8:07 AM PDT
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HALO ISNT JUST ANOTHER FPS! its got class. plus you do know whats on the back of a warthog, right?

  • 06.25.2004 8:11 AM PDT
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First Post!

Think on this one: Imagine using DUAL m60's or m249's, that would be kickass. They'd have to make it terribly inaccurate, and for all fairness you'd have to move slower, but that would be sweet to just blow away an entire room two heavy machine guns. It would be even cooler if they made MC screamin a battle yell while he shoots em. Now that would be hella nice.

  • 06.25.2004 8:22 AM PDT

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It wouldnt be unblalanced if you made it so theres only 1 per base (and elites would have different plasma type gun thats the same) and have the time for ammo and other guns to come back humungus like twice as long as the sniper rifles

  • 06.25.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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Personally, I'd like to see something along the lines of the XM307..
www.gdatp.com/products/lethality/xm307/xm307.htm
..But that's my and my Overpowered Weapon fetish.

[Edited on 6/25/2004 8:34:20 AM]

  • 06.25.2004 8:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: johny joe
HALO ISNT JUST ANOTHER FPS! its got class. plus you do know whats on the back of a warthog, right?


Yeah, but there isnt always a warthog, and even when you do have one, there are alot of handy places you cant get to.

For the record though: I love Halo the way it is, and part of that is the fact that it isnt a typical FPS, it forces you to consider the advantages\disadvantages of any given situatuation and weapon combo. Its great. But I also think that, done properly, a HMG could find a niche in there somewhere. I'm not expecting it to happen, I just crave a little bit o' that Animal Mother ( Full Metal Jacket Baby!) blastfest.

  • 06.25.2004 8:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sith
Personally, I'd like to see something along the lines of the XM307..
www.gdatp.com/products/lethality/xm307/xm307.htm
..But that's my and my Overpowered Weapon fetish.



Holy -blam!-.

That is the COOLEST thing I have ever seen. Thankyouverymuch.

  • 06.25.2004 8:43 AM PDT
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No.

Just...no.

A handheld minigun was at one time planned for Halo. I'm guessing they scrapped it because this isn't Doom, its Halo.

Nobody runs around with a machine gun. That's stupid. Chuck Norris movies are FICTION. Assault rifles, yes. Machine guns, no.

Lessee, a big powerful machine gun with a whole ton of ammo... that equals NO MOVEMENT WHATSOEVER.

That's why we have the mounted guns.

'Nuff said.

Cheers!

  • 06.25.2004 10:04 AM PDT
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C4FF1N3 K1NG
maybe, since its the future, they can make a gun with differnt firing types?(not modes) like the br shoots, zoomed single shots, unzoomed 3 round bursts, maybe they can create a weapon that fires like a rifle or a machine gun at once, like in the rifle mode it fires more acurately, fires a max of 5-7 bullets at once and cant go full auto unless you switch to machine gun mode where its full auto less acuracy and everything, but the common simmilarity is that they have around 100 bullets per belt, belt fed, and has a shape of a rifle but slightly bigger? ideas?

5-7 accurate bullets? but then it has full auto? well -blam!-, that sounds like the AR and plasmarifle from halo. oh wait! [hint=its called burst shooting, or viding it]

there are mounted heavy machine guns[the minigun hint hint]. so everyone hop on the clue train... they are your heavy automatic weapons. its balanced because you cant move. you guys keep saying itd be cool if you just moved slower. its already in the game, and you move a lot slower.

  • 06.25.2004 10:25 AM PDT

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